With the cartoony graphical style you're using Brandon, I don't think realism is too important. Having said that, some weather effects, insects and bumpy ground wouldn't go amiss.
I'm going to see what I can do about adding alot more plant life all over the ground so that it does take away from the flat feeling, I am also planning on making more objects appear above the player. Because most of everything is backgrounds, everything is behind you.
Rain? In a forest? Rainforest is an oxymoron. LOL, obviously some of you people haven't been around trees for a while .
Hmm... I love the sunrays from the canopies of a forest. And that natural smell of earth. Put those in .
BTW, I think you've got enough ideas. Too much and it'll look wierd.
Oh, wait, have a waterfall. With little water particles
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Well, yeah, there's rain in the rainforest, but not of it ever gets through the canopy. Just tiny drips. I actually take those forest paths whenever it's raining outside .
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